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Lighting The Fires With MANGO From ABLAZE · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Speaker 1: On Mango on the drummer from a Blaze, a hard
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  Speaker 1: rocky outfit from Melbourne. We've just released our new album,
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  Speaker 1: Sink Your Teeth In, and we're about to take in
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  Speaker 1: it overseas of the UK and Europe.
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  Speaker 2: Fantastic Mage. Thanks joining us today.
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  Speaker 3: Brother, thanks so much for having me my pleasure brace.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll start off on the album. Mate, like the Blaze, recently,
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  Speaker 2: didn't release your second studio album, Seek Your Teeth In.
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  Speaker 2: So how's an early reception been for it?
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  Speaker 3: It's been amazing.
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  Speaker 1: I mean we've been dropping singles off it for about
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  Speaker 1: two and a half years because that's.
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  Speaker 3: That's the world that we live in now.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody wants singles, but with how much time and effort
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  Speaker 1: and money goes into recording something professionally. Now, we didn't
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  Speaker 1: want to just record everything, drop a single and release
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  Speaker 1: the rest.
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  Speaker 3: We wanted to really bring this thing out for everything
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  Speaker 3: we could.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean we've released five singles and a
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  Speaker 1: bonus track was a single as well off an eight
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  Speaker 1: to nine song album depending on how you look at it.
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  Speaker 1: So it's been received really well and our fans have
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  Speaker 1: absolutely loved it. I mean, even the new songs that
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  Speaker 1: were still on the album and our big launch and
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  Speaker 1: Melbourne the other week. I was screaming every lyric back
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  Speaker 1: at us and even kind of critically. It's gotten a
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  Speaker 1: lot of praise at the moment, which is fantastic.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and like you mentioned, you're a hard rock band,
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  Speaker 2: ro but can you dive into the album a bit
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  Speaker 2: more from a musical point of view and tell us
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  Speaker 2: what you were going for?
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  Speaker 1: So one of the things that A Blaze has always
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  Speaker 1: been really proud of, and I've been really proud of
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  Speaker 1: with us is that we can write in a whole
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  Speaker 1: bunch of different styles and genres and it always comes
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  Speaker 1: out sound a lot of Blaze. So you know, on
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  Speaker 1: our first album, it was a rock album, but we
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  Speaker 1: had a hoe down, we had an Irish drinking song,
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  Speaker 1: we had an acoustic song that I the Drama sung
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  Speaker 1: and played acoustic on. We could do a whole bunch
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  Speaker 1: of different stuff, and so on this album we've done
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  Speaker 1: the same thing. I mean, it's an eight song or
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  Speaker 1: nine song with the bonus album, but you know, we've
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  Speaker 1: got the heaviest song we've ever written. We've got some
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  Speaker 1: real Aussie rock style stuff. We've got uh, We've got
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  Speaker 1: a big six minute gospel epic that finishes the thing.
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  Speaker 1: We've got a big glamy song with different kind of nightmare.
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  Speaker 1: We've got a southern rock song as well. We just
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  Speaker 1: had a Christmas song again, so we are really kind
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  Speaker 1: of wanted to show that we're still doing what we do.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, after our first time, our writing has
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  Speaker 1: I think really taken a step forward. We can kind
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  Speaker 1: of stretch things and take some risks and stuff. And
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  Speaker 1: we've got some new band members as well, so their
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  Speaker 1: inputs obviously changed the way things are a little bit
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  Speaker 1: as well.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I love.
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  Speaker 2: The album title too, bro like sink Your Teeth In.
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  Speaker 2: Like everything about it is so Australian and there's not
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  Speaker 2: even someone the album called sink your teeth In. I
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  Speaker 2: fucking love it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, no, Look, I think we all kind of like.
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  Speaker 1: The you know, the album having its own name, because
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm old school. I like albums as a
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  Speaker 1: complete package. I don't necessarily just eat single single single.
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  Speaker 1: I don't like it when people put their biggest single
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  Speaker 1: first and in the second one second and it all
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  Speaker 1: just kind.
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  Speaker 3: Of trails off. I like it to flow.
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  Speaker 1: We put a lot of effort into the kind of
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  Speaker 1: the the track listing that we do. There's a big
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  Speaker 1: thought process to make it all make sense. And I
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  Speaker 1: mean some of the songs on this album, especially on
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  Speaker 1: the last one, are what they are because of where
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  Speaker 1: they sit in the track listing. It gave them extra life.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, we'd sink your Teeth in. It's just the
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  Speaker 1: name of the whole package. I mean, out of two
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  Speaker 1: EPs and two albums, I think the first AP is
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  Speaker 1: the only thing that actually had a title track, and
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  Speaker 1: the it's fundly enough the second EP, the song that
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  Speaker 1: is named after it. We actually afterwards decided to name
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  Speaker 1: a song two is Up and that's on the first album.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just the name of the complex.
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  Speaker 1: Sink Your Teething was almost the name of the first UP,
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  Speaker 1: and then our manager at the time suggested straight up
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  Speaker 1: no Chaser, and we went, no, we're just going to
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  Speaker 1: go with no Chaser.
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  Speaker 3: Actually we'll keep Yeah, we'll keep Seek your.
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  Speaker 1: Teething because it's a it's a cool name and yeah,
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  Speaker 1: look i'm a wildlife guy out our lead guitarist, Surreal
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  Speaker 1: Animal not as well. So the idea of having a
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  Speaker 1: big great white sharks mark on the front of it
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  Speaker 1: was yeah, it's too tempting.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, now, we touched on this before made. But there's
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  Speaker 2: eight songs on there, plus the bonus track All Up.
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  Speaker 2: You've released six of them, man, and that's about seventy
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  Speaker 2: five eighty percent of the album released as singles, So
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  Speaker 2: there's an indication of how wrong the songs are.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we are. We knew if we were going to
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  Speaker 3: pull this off.
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  Speaker 1: The original plan was to release four singles and then
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  Speaker 1: do an eight song We were also planning on doing
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  Speaker 1: that over about an eight month period. Now it's been
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  Speaker 1: two and a half years because life.
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  Speaker 3: We yeah, we knew we wanted to release a bunch
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  Speaker 3: of singles off of it.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously, the market now on the way the world works,
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  Speaker 1: it's single single, single stream streams trend. You need numbers
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  Speaker 1: in all the right places. So we knew that every
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  Speaker 1: song had to be single worthy. And I mean half
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  Speaker 1: the band's Italian, so we were going to argue about
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  Speaker 1: everything anyway, but we make sure that on one of them,
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  Speaker 1: so I can say that, but we we wanted to
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  Speaker 1: make sure and look out of the out of their
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  Speaker 1: main eight songs, there was I would say two that
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  Speaker 1: we were a little concerned about and we're like, I
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  Speaker 1: don't really know if this is going to be a single.
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  Speaker 1: This is something's kind of missing. And then obviously the
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  Speaker 1: last song end of the day, the big Gospel one.
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  Speaker 1: It's a six minute song that's pretty hard to do
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  Speaker 1: as a single. Now literally twice the link.
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  Speaker 3: Of what people are expecting and what the algorithm's bringing
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  Speaker 3: sick of saying that word.
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  Speaker 1: Will allow, so we we really put over and funnily
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  Speaker 1: enoughter two that we were a little concerned about. When
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  Speaker 1: it got to the end of mixing and mastering, and
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  Speaker 1: when they got their place on the album, all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden, they just took a step into their own
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  Speaker 1: and we went by. Then they were well one of
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  Speaker 1: them was already a single, and we were like, no,
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  Speaker 1: this has worked. And finally enough songs that we were
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  Speaker 1: a little concerned about people have told us are their
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  Speaker 1: favorites on the album. So you never know, we're lucky
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  Speaker 1: that our fan base, for the most part. First of all,
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  Speaker 1: they're into new rock, so that's already half the battle done.
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  Speaker 3: But then they like the variety they don't. You know,
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  Speaker 3: Second albums are scary.
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  Speaker 1: Second album syndrome is a real thing, and you sit
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  Speaker 1: there going if we're too far away from what we
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  Speaker 1: did last time. People will go, oh, they're a one
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  Speaker 1: trick pony. They did one album, that's it, they can't
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  Speaker 1: do it again. And then if you sound exactly the same,
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  Speaker 1: they go, oh, they're a one trick pony.
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  Speaker 3: They're going to release the same thing. So if we're
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  Speaker 3: going to be a one trick pony, we're going to
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  Speaker 3: do whatever we frigging want.
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  Speaker 1: That's exactly what we did, and I think I think
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  Speaker 1: some of the songs sound like they could have been
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  Speaker 1: on our first album.
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  Speaker 3: Some of them sound like they needed to be that
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  Speaker 3: next step.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, we're proud that every one of those songs
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  Speaker 1: could have been a single. I mean, the six minute
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  Speaker 1: Gospel Epic could have been a single in the late eighties.
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  Speaker 3: The most people would have loved it absolutely well until
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  Speaker 3: they kind of thought about the lyrics a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, maybe.
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  Speaker 2: That's it from what I've read and what I've been
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  Speaker 2: told of the word on the street, bros, you guys
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  Speaker 2: are fucking awesome lives. So run us through a typical
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  Speaker 2: of Blaze live show and why they're so good.
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  Speaker 3: We're all nuts.
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  Speaker 1: It's that we have always put a lot of effort
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  Speaker 1: into our live show. We are a live band like
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  Speaker 1: the recording's great, shooting videos is up. It's all fun,
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  Speaker 1: but we come alive on stage and that's because we
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  Speaker 1: all love each other and we're all idiots, so we're
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  Speaker 1: not We take our music seriously and what we do
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  Speaker 1: we want to do well. But ourselves we bag each
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  Speaker 1: other out constantly. Me and the singer are usually making
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  Speaker 1: front of each other on stage during the shows.
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  Speaker 3: It's a little bit, a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Still panther esc sometimes, but we want it to be fun.
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  Speaker 1: There's plenty of bands that are ware and you're there
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  Speaker 1: and the edge of the stage is this divide, and
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  Speaker 1: you sit there and you look at how cool we are.
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  Speaker 1: We want everybody involved, and so you know, one of
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  Speaker 1: the first few songs of most sets is a song
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  Speaker 1: of ours called Where's My Drink where we introduced the
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  Speaker 1: band and we pour whiskey into each other's mouth, and
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  Speaker 1: then the front as it goes into a band break,
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  Speaker 1: the front row all get a couple of free shots
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  Speaker 1: of sailor Jerry much of the time, and ninety eight
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  Speaker 1: percent of venues haven't complained about it. We yeah, we've
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  Speaker 1: had in moments, but yeah, it's we want everybody involved.
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  Speaker 1: At our launch, for the first time ever, we played
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  Speaker 1: a song off the new I'm called Siren's Court, which
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  Speaker 1: is probably the heaviest song we've ever written. And there's
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  Speaker 1: a big section in the middle where we have very
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  Speaker 1: much paid homage to the Jaws theme and it's very
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  Speaker 1: much about like almost the Greek mythology, the.
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  Speaker 3: Siren calling it to your death, that kind of thing.
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  Speaker 1: And then it goes into this Jaws thing, and we
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  Speaker 1: launched five full size, like right on inflatable sharks into
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  Speaker 1: the audience. Yeah, now, a lot of people copped a
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  Speaker 1: six foot long shark to the head, but to we
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  Speaker 1: know where two of them are out of the five.
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  Speaker 3: The rest of them have gone off into the world
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  Speaker 3: to seek their fortune. And that's fine. Our five dollars
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  Speaker 3: eaching came out. No one was expecting them back, man.
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  Speaker 1: But we want we want those moments, you know, we
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  Speaker 1: even got the chance we did them.
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  Speaker 3: We often we do a little acoustic section.
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  Speaker 1: In our bigger hometown shows where we'll do a cover
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  Speaker 1: of Tribute or something like that, and then we'll do
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  Speaker 1: the song that I sing off the first of the
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  Speaker 1: bottom of My bottle.
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  Speaker 3: And this time the cover.
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  Speaker 1: We decided to go, hey, let's let's do something we
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  Speaker 1: all love, and so we did Cry and Shame by
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  Speaker 1: Diesel Wow. Well back when it was Johnny Diesel and
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  Speaker 1: the injectors, and I came forward with an acoustic and
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  Speaker 1: rhythm guitarist Might started off singing and playing it.
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  Speaker 3: I jumped in on acoustic.
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  Speaker 1: Our lead guitarist Ben ran out with a saxophone and
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  Speaker 1: started doing the saxophone solo. I got seeing the third verse.
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  Speaker 1: I think Danny sung the second one. Everybody, everywhere you
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  Speaker 1: looked on the stage, something different was happening. Our Basis
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  Speaker 1: Paris was laughing their ass off because they thought Ben
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  Speaker 1: playing the saxophone was the funniest thing in the world.
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  Speaker 1: Four out of five members of this band had played
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  Speaker 1: saxophone at some point, a lot of us not since
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  Speaker 1: high school.
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  Speaker 3: I remember.
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  Speaker 1: We've got videos of it that I've got to post
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  Speaker 1: because it's just it was just all of us having fun,
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  Speaker 1: bouncing off each other and the crowd. We want to
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  Speaker 1: draw the crowd in with that, so whenever we if
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  Speaker 1: we can get in front of the crowd, we can win.
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  Speaker 3: Them, doesn't matter what it is.
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  Speaker 1: I'm really proud of that because we go to the
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  Speaker 1: next level to try and get everybody involved.
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  Speaker 3: Fucky.
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  Speaker 2: Now, speaking of Libro, you're just about to kick off
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  Speaker 2: the European and UK twour that starts in Belgium on
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  Speaker 2: the twenty eighth August, travels through France the UK winds
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  Speaker 2: up in Germany on September twentieth.
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  Speaker 3: For decent run.
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  Speaker 1: Bro, you got enough underwear, I might be our the
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  Speaker 1: best and want us to pick up a few actions.
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  Speaker 1: I definitely, I definitely, and I have enough socks, so
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to do it, especially for me because
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  Speaker 1: I got to bring extras because all the drummond and
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  Speaker 1: the double kicking, I can rip through the bloody things
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  Speaker 1: pretty quick. Yeah, I've literally I have to start packing.
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  Speaker 1: We are leaving in Monday night is when me and
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  Speaker 1: Danny the singer leaving. The rest of them are leaving
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  Speaker 1: over the weekend on different flights. And yeah, I've got
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  Speaker 1: to get that leopard print suitcase down and see how
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  Speaker 1: many peirs andes I can fit.
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  Speaker 2: We're five of them on the plane. Braids just got
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  Speaker 2: some reserves.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll be nice and comfy. I'll be sitting this
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  Speaker 3: high off the chair. What are you?
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  Speaker 2: What are you expecting from the crowds over there, mate,
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  Speaker 2: Like you know what Australian crowds are like. But what
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  Speaker 2: about over there, like you do you look into it
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  Speaker 2: and research what to expect, or do you go over
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  Speaker 2: there cold and take it as a cap Well, it's.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of fifty to fifty because we went there at
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  Speaker 1: the end of twenty nineteen and we did a lot
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  Speaker 1: of UK shows and we did a lot of Spain
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  Speaker 1: based shows as well.
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  Speaker 3: So even though this time we're going back and last.
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  Speaker 1: Time we did two festivals in the UK we did
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  Speaker 1: Hard Rock Hall and then we did and we went
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  Speaker 1: to Storm up in Scotland. And this time we're doing
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  Speaker 1: five festivals, two in the UK, three in Germany.
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  Speaker 3: But we're not playing We've never played.
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  Speaker 1: Germany before, we've never played Belgium or France, and the
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  Speaker 1: places in the UK that we're playing we've never played
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  Speaker 1: those places either.
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  Speaker 3: So even though we've got a rough idea, we're still
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  Speaker 3: going in cold.
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  Speaker 1: But the UK fans love us because Australian bands, I
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  Speaker 1: think it's kind of respected over there. Australian bands work hard.
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  Speaker 1: Like if we play, you know, if we want to
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  Speaker 1: do a tour, we're doing Adelaide.
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  Speaker 3: We're doing Sydney.
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  Speaker 1: That's eighty hours of drive and each way in the UK,
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  Speaker 1: they drive any more than forty five minutes, they start
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  Speaker 1: booking overnight accommodation. So what we when we found out
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  Speaker 1: on this tour most of the dates were set up,
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  Speaker 1: we're only going to have to drive kind of two
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  Speaker 1: to four hours most days.
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  Speaker 3: We were like, oh my god, that's only like to Aubrey.
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  Speaker 1: This is cruzy, whereas last time we were doing seven
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  Speaker 1: to nine hours a day going around Spain because we
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  Speaker 1: borrowed the van from Massive back when they were around
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  Speaker 1: in that van didn't make it didn't make.
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  Speaker 3: Triple digits on the speed I made. It was flagged
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  Speaker 3: pretty hard.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that van was the sixth member of the band
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  Speaker 1: and it was the one we all wanted to kill.
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  Speaker 3: But they lent it to us for free. We can't complain.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, like we know that when we get they
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  Speaker 1: know that we work hard to get your head even
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  Speaker 1: slightly above the crowd in Australia, you gotta work, and
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  Speaker 1: Australian crowds, more than anyone else, will test you if
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  Speaker 1: you're not genuine.
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  Speaker 3: Bussie fans know it's straight away over there there's.
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  Speaker 1: So many bands and touring is so I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to say more simple, but for a lot of bands,
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  Speaker 1: it's more accessible and there is a kind of ladder
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  Speaker 1: that you can work up and you start and as
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  Speaker 1: long as you can prove yourself and you've got something
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  Speaker 1: important that you can say and you can stand out,
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  Speaker 1: you can work your way up. And beans that started
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  Speaker 1: around the same time we did are now doing big
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  Speaker 1: headlining international tours. Bands like Massive Wagons and the New
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  Speaker 1: Roses and the Chris Barriss Band and all those guys
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  Speaker 1: that are you know, headlining festivals and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 3: It's more accessible to them. In Australia, all the rungs
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  Speaker 3: in the middle of that ladder have been ripped out.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure you're more than a way. You're either heritage
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  Speaker 1: ack or you're busting in your ass towards the bottom
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  Speaker 1: of the US. So we are used to having to
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  Speaker 1: prove ourselves, and you prove yourself by being good and
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  Speaker 1: doing something different and making your fans feel special. And
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  Speaker 1: we've been so focused on that they're getting over there again.
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  Speaker 3: If we can get in front of those crowds, we
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  Speaker 3: win them.
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  Speaker 1: When we did those festivals, we would be getting told
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  Speaker 1: were the find of the festival on every review that
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  Speaker 1: we found.
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  Speaker 3: With the hard Rock Hell One.
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  Speaker 1: We managed to be the last band slotted on because
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  Speaker 1: someone last minute pulled out while Booker was ligning it
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  Speaker 1: all up, and we ended up being on it.
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  Speaker 3: Like it was amazing.
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  Speaker 1: It was like four or five o'clock on the Saturday
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  Speaker 1: night of a four day festival, so we played to
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  Speaker 1: a packed main room, main stage and we went out
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  Speaker 1: there and exploded.
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  Speaker 3: I would's probably one of the best shows with it.
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  Speaker 1: We were tight, someone alway stuff something up, but this
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  Speaker 1: show was we were on and at the end of
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  Speaker 1: it we were getting.
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: Pulled over for photos. All the reviews were saying, who
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: the hell are these Aussies.
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: It also helps they've heard that many bands over there
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: from Australia that they go ACDC or they're trying to
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: be a CC or they're trying to be Airborne, and
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: now we have some of those songs.
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: Definitely. I mean I was an ac AC kid, That's
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: how I got into the rock.
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: But we do different stuff and so when they go,
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: oh they're Australian and they're not part of.
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: That mold yea, that helps as well.
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: So we can win those crowds when we're standing in
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: front of them or when they're standing in front of us,
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: and so as long as we can get in front
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: of them, we're going to be fine back.
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you also after that, you're coming home to
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: do a bit of an Australians too. I believe I
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: couldn't find any dates.
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: But yeah, look, we haven't fully announced it all yet.
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: It's kind of hovering in the bene picture on our Facebook.
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: But we're coming back again. We're coming back in dribs
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: and drugs. Because some people want to go off on
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: a little euro trip afterwards, and I mean flying for
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: twenty seven hours, they might as well enjoy it.
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: But we get back.
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: I think the last two of them get back on
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: the ninth and tenth of October, and then on the
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: eleventh we're driving to Adelaide to play the rock Hard Festival.
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I think that it is.
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: Look Phill and Tish who are organizing it, two of
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: the best supporters of rock and heavy music in Australia
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: as far as I'm concerned.
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: I love them both dearly.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: And when we got to be on that festival and
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: we're up the pointing end, of that line up playing
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: with the Poor and Avalanche and heaps of amazing Adelaide
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: bands and some more Malbourne bands. We were stoked so
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: straight over there to do that. We're playing a show
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: at the Chuck Trailers in Sydney. We're doing a couple
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: of Melbourne shows too, which would be cool. We're going
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: back to the lead Beat to play White Widows album
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: rereleased party thing that'll be. That's pretty soon after we
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: get back as well, where I don't know if he's
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: a Nancy yet, but we're playing Della Cama's big album
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: launch as well at the end of November, and there's
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: a few others. We're going back to Geelong. I've been
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: trying to go back to Geelong for.
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: Eight years, so getting back.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: There's some great guys down there, Micro Law and the
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: team getting rock bands back to Geelong and give them
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: an a venue and where I love touring Australia. We're not
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: going to be able to go to places like Brisbane
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: and perthan Tasi just yet because we're just about ready
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: to start selling Organs for this Europe to her.
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: But the second the second the second week can afford
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: to get on a plane or that that boat.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: We'll be back and doing more Australian stuff and hopefully
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: in the new year we'll get to those places as
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: well as pick up some nicer supports for some bigger
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: acts as well.
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: It'd be great nice.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: Now finally you go brow. I've got a new segment
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: I've started called photo Bombs, So basically I've thrown your
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: social media before we got a chat.
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: I've found a few photos.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: A little bit more about this one here, like this,
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: what looks like a cool venue.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: Man looks more like a man cave that it does
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: a venue.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: That venue, if that's the one I think it was.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: That's in Spain. We played this little thing. It was
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: called Lostrato Fest or something like that. It was in
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: this tiny little.
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: Town, Ah, and it went mental.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: The stage was so small that the guitar cabs had
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: to be set up pointing sideways across the stage because
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: I couldn't get behind the kit if they were facing
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: the front.
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: We played with four other bands. We went on. The
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: place was packed, ah and it just went mental. I
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: put Spanish fans or something else.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, right, we I got on stage, I put down
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: the set list.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: I put a set list on my drum kit.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: I turned around and stolen the setlist from the front
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: of the stage. Well, I hope you guys like this
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: because you've committed early.
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: But yeah, we went off. They loved it.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: Ben jumped off and jumped on the bar because all
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: five of us on the stage was especially back there
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: on our basis was six foot seven when he was
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: swinging around that Duff McKagan base.
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: It was.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: If it wasn't the fact that they singers about four
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: four two, it would have literally been at risk to
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: his out. So yeah, Ben jumping up and going well, yeah,
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: high energy all the way.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: So that venue was see they had.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: That was the big they had, like the tank beer
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: and stuff and all the big pipes coming down.
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: The room look cool and that that venue too.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: I made myself look like an absolute dick because throughout
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: the Spanish dates, Danny would be like Mango has been
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: learning Spanish, and they'd all go yeah, and he the
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: black could come to me and the only thing I
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: could say was don dies de la biblio or decha
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: which is where is the library?
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: Right? And everywhere in all the Spanish loved it. They
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: laughed at asses off. In this venue. They all turned
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: around and pointed, and.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: At the back of the venue there was one of
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: those little like take a book, leave a book things
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: and that was the.
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: Town Library and I died. I was laughing so hard.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: Very memorable show, everybody.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: I got one more for you. Like I've heard of
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: people warming up their voice before before they go on stage,
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: but never from a baba.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah okay, So that that was hilarious. We played a
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: festival that was on a couple of years ago called
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: Mochella yep, where it was Coachella and Mowey and we
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: despite we were one of the headliner, think with us
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: Dead City Ruins and Black Aces, who we've known for
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: years and years.
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: One of our first real gigs ever was with the
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: Black Aces back in White twelve twenty thirteen or something,
• 21:04
  Speaker 3: and maybe earlier. But yeah, we got this big room.
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: For some reason, we.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: Managed to get the big room at the Mui Hotel
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: and had this big spa ba wow, and we were
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: ready to party. So I just jumped in and said,
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: oh you get a photo. I just grabbed that and
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: started screaming, and we sent that to all the other
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: bands and.
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: They were like, what have you got a spa? So
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: the later in the evening.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: The plan was to take the party back to that
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: but then after the gig was over, the venue just
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: pulled out Eski's full of beers and we all just
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: sat there and we drank every other band and half
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: the staff out of that party. And I almost fell
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: asleep in that tar about three o'clock in the morning.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: It's going through all those photos looking for these, mate.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: The common denominator in all of them was alcohol. So
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: you guys must like a drink.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: We fostered an image, yeah, we for a long while. Yeah,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: it was we do like a beer. We like hanging
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: out having a beer, and you know, when we're in
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: our mid to late twenties, that was what it was
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: all about for It's getting out, having beers, having fun
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: with people.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: Not a little a little bit older, but we still
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: enjoy beer or whiskey.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: Thanks long, sure right, may Gael, Thanks for your time,
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: Roby in the present chat and sink your teeth in
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: and out now and fucking cracker of an album Bright,
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: so good luck with that, good luck in Europe and
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: hope play I'll see you down at rockyd.
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: No say that man, thanks so much, having.
• 22:49
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• 22:53
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• 23:00
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• 23:04
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• 23:10
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• 23:18
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• 23:24
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• 23:28
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• 23:38
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• 23:41
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• 23:46
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• 23:52
  Speaker 4: bought it back.
• 23:54
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• 24:00
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• 24:00
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• 24:11
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• 24:16
  Speaker 4: Now I'm thinking.
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: And guessing.
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: I'm play with fine. I think god lock all right,
• 24:54
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• 25:06
  Speaker 4: Now I'm going as Brock call in between. Now I'm
• 25:11
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• 25:14
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